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Book SynopsisNarratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature, edited by Zelia Bora and Murali Sivaramakrishnan, contextualizes the two subcontinents of India and Brazil and closely examines environmental issues from within and without. This collection focuses largely on the fate of forests and water in these two geographical terrains.This book explores narratives that reflect transformations: hitherto unprecedented demographic expansions, exploitation of natural resources, pollution and depletion of river and fresh water sources, uncontrollable demands on the energy front, waste and garbage disposal, drastic reduction of biodiversity. All of these are factors to research when one considers losing nature. In philosophical as well as theoretical terms the question of what is nature, what is gained and lost in human-nature interaction, what is the essential balance of nature, are all important queries on a similar scale. Societal reality in present day Brazil and India is re
Table of ContentsSection 1: Contested Spaces: Resisting the Loss of Water and Forests 1.The Loss of Nature, Human and Non human Relationship in Tamil Nadu V.Arivudai Nambi 2.Human Intervention and the Depleting Well Springs of Nature A Case Study of Orange Poika Reinhart Phillip 3.Green Risk: Analyzing the Societal Harms in the Illegal Wood Trade of the Amazonian Rain Forest (Peru/Brazil) Siddharth Singh Monteiro Bora 4.Sabarimala: A Review of Development Threats to a Rare Forest Ecosystem Rajan Gurukkal Section 2: Speaking Nature: The Cultural Dimensions of Water and Land 5.The Amazonian Forest Revisited: a critical reading of the novels by Dalcídio Jurandir Zélia M. Bora 6.The Saga of Subalterns amidst Resource Crisis: An Analysis of “Drought: Mahesh” and Water Nibedita Bandyopadhyay 7.Re-reading Nature, Restoring Nature: “The Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai. Carmen Escobedo de Tapia 8.Nature, Religion and Ecological Sustainability in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Animesh Roy Section 3: The Voice of the Subaltern: Losing Nature 9.“Good God! The Tambochas”: Ants and Environmental Vengeance in José Eustasio Rivera’s The Vortex Frank Izaguirre 10.Around and Inside Amazonian Rainforest: The Literary Manifestos of Vicente Franz Cecim Heloisa Helena Siqueira Correia 11.Amazonian Mythology and the Theatre of A Rã Qi Ri Ligia Karina Martins de Andrade 12.Role of Women in the Early Environment Movements in India Rekha Pande
